Izuku is just your typical part-time college student. He works two jobs, lives at home with his mom, and has anxiety/depression so bad that it's crippling. Sure, sometimes he sees things that aren't there, hears whispers in empty rooms, notices strange lights that flicker in the night sky. But he's normal.

Oh, and his new dog? He's totally normal too. He's definitely not an alien.

Sadness expresses the growing gap between the self-image of a perceived social status and the actual precarious reality. The temporary dip, described here under the code name ‘sadness’, can best be understood as a mirror phenomenon of the self-promotion machine that constructs the links for us. The mental state is so pervasive, the merging of social media with the self so totalizing, that we see the sadness complex as a manifestation of an ‘anti-self’ stage that we slip into and then walk away from. The anti-climax called sadness travels with the smart phone, it’s everywhere.